The Facebook Open Stream API — Today we are excited to announce an important step toward greater openness through Facebook Platform. For the first time, we're opening the core Facebook product experience — the stream — with the new Facebook Open Stream API.

Three's Company: Meet Your New MySpace Executive Team — Less than a week ago MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe still felt secure in his job. Fast forward to today and DeWolfe is out and a new CEO, Owen Van Natta, is starting his first day on the job. — And he's already got two lieutenants …

Apple and Verizon consider iPhone deal — Verizon (VZ) and Apple (AAPL) are discussing the possible development of an iPhone for Verizon, with the goal of introducing it next year, people familiar with the situation say. — It would mark the first time Apple has produced a version …

Conde Nast Closing ‘Portfolio’ — For nearly two years I've been covering the media industry's bad news on this blog, including some that's hit very close to home. Now it hits closer still: Condé Nast Portfolio is closing. — Our editor in chief, Joanne Lipman, just broke the news to staff …

Microsoft's Mundie, Google's Schmidt named Obama advisers — Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, was among 20 science and technology leaders appointed this morning to President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Also on the list is Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive.

Some Palm Pre Questions — Despite the fact that all of us that know the actual release date of the device are bound by a NDA and our job titles, we all know that it's going to be soon... so I figured it might be nice to answer a few FAQ before it arrives. Here's some questions and facts …

Whoops! Apple miscounted the “Say on Pay” vote, reverses decision — Apple this week informed the SEC that it had miscounted the shareholder votes on the ‘Say on Pay’ referendum at the February 25th shareholder meeting. The referendum was intended to let shareholders weigh in on policies regarding executive pay and compensation.

Apple building YouTube support into Snow Leopard — Apple will further its endorsement of YouTube and open video standards by building support for the Google-owned video sharing service into one of its flagship applications due to ship later this summer as part of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

iPhone is Boosting Demand For Location-Based Services — Nearly two years ago, I outlined five reasons Apple's iPhone will change the wireless business, the foremost being increased web usage on mobile phones. I should have added another item to that list: catalysing location-based services …

Steinbeck Heirs Seek To Slow Google Books Settlement — A group of authors and the heirs of others, including representatives of the estate of John Steinbeck, and of the musician Arlo Guthrie, are asking a federal judge to delay by four months the deadline for authors to decide whether …

Microsoft Windows 7 gets a virtual mode — Microsoft says Windows 7 will get backward compatibility with Windows XP thanks to virtualization and a free future download from their corporate Web site — Microsoft has been whispering about some secret feature within Windows 7, and now that secret has been revealed.

Inside Steve Jobs' tear-down mansion — On Tuesday a California city council will reconsider Steve Jobs' longstanding request for permission to tear down the empty 84-year-old mansion that stands on the site where he wants to build a smaller, modern house more to his exacting taste.

Will Oracle kill MySQL? Who cares? — Fail and You When Oracle bought Sun last week, the MySQL community collectively curled its lip into a worried sneer. Is Oracle going to kill MySQL? We'll have to wait and see.

FTC says Internet firms near “last chance” — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Companies that track consumer behavior on the Web for targeted advertising without proper consent are near their “last chance” to self-regulate, the head of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Monday.

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